Benteen: Is "Hamster" really a
Fan Nickname, or was it bestowed on him by Clarkson and May? I get the impression it was Clarkson/May, myself, but I've only recently discovered
Top Gear so I don't feel justified in changing it. At any rate, the fans use it enough to justify categorizing it as a
Fan Nickname.
- Chariset: It started as an in-show, unofficial nickname, but it's not an official alias (like The Stig) and fans use "Jezza," "Hamster," and "Captain Slow" as much or more than the presenters' real names, so I think it qualifies
Deadbeatloser22: I've corrected the
Just Plane Wrong error under Refuge in audacity. They're clearly spitfires, not hurricanes.
Silent Hunter: And I went to the RAF Museum in Hendon the day before...
Chariset: I'm having fun expanding this page. Do you think
Top Gear needs a
Crowning Moment Of Awesome page? There have been so many neat moments
- Chariset: Also, I think I need to be banned from editing this page, because it's taking over my life....
- Benteen: As the original creator of this page, I understand the fascination. :-) I'm also very pleased by how the Wiki Magic has significantly improved this page over my original...
- Chariset: I want a second opinion: Do you think Hammond qualifies as The Woobie?
Kazokuhouou: Can someone confirm or deny whether 13x01 was another
Ratings Stunt, what with
the Stig's maybe-reveal?
Chariset: I need examples for
Comedic Sociopathy. I can think of a few, but I want to see what the rest of you think
- Listy: There's tons in this series that I can think of. The Africa episode is full of it, for one, then there's the running gag of one of the hosts constantly banging their car into one of the others during a parking scene, as well as Clarkson constantly being mocked every time he is sick on the show.
Chariset: Added a Quotes page.
Chariset: Sorry, seem to have killed the page image. I'll try to fix it
Benteen: Ok guys, I've sat on my hands for a while here, but I've got to speak up (apologies, but since I wrote the original "
Top Gear" article I've become a little bit protective over it). Let's lighten up a bit with the minor edits. The substantive edits are great, but when people are editing things like changing " ' " to "’" or to " ’ " and back again, it strikes me as getting a bit much. I suggest for proper rendering on all platforms that we standardize on the plain ASCII characters " and ' for double and single quotes respectively—I suspect that a lot of this edit-and-re-edit is because some people's browsers don't render Unicode correctly. Ok, I've donned my nomex undies; let the flames begin! ;-)
- Robin Zimm: ...is it still all right to add missing periods to ends of sentences?
- Benteen: That doesn't bother me as much, because I tend to be anal about punctuation mistakes, myself. I guess what's irritating me about this is that as far as I'm concerned, " ' " (ASCII single quote) is just fine, and it strikes me as being the height of nit-picking to change " ' " to " ’ " (that's the edit that started raising my blood pressure). I realize that some people probably wind up using " ’ " because they're writing their edits in a word processor that replaces " ' " with " ’ " and then copying/pasting them into the edit window here. I can live with that, but then my browser renders both characters correctly. I suppose I just need to find me a good sedative and relax...
Chariset: Thanks for writing our first review,
Robin Zimm
- Robin Zimm
- Glad to do it - I figure I've wasted enough hours of my life on it to have an opinion. Hope it'll be helpful to hoi polloi.
- Chariset: Wow, you're one of the few people I've met who realize that "the hoi polloi" is redundant.
Chariset: Thinking of putting up a character sheet, but I'm not sure. The presenters are playing fictionalized (or at least exaggerated) versions of themselves, but they're not exactly characters, so I don't know if they qualify. Thoughts?
- Robin Zimm
- I would have no objections - even if they weren't playing roles, they'd still be real characters. Besides, it's a reference - it loses nothing by being a reference for real people.
Chariset: So... who's your favorite presenter?
- Robin Zimm: This is probably forum material, but ... James May. I'd surely make all my air vents line up if I had a car.
- Chariset: I'm with you... I think he's easily the most interesting person on the show. Doesn't hurt that he's also One Of Us.
- Kazokuhouou to Chariset: Yep. It was a bit of a Swiss Moment when I saw a Yorkie bar and realized that that was what they were talking about.
